POWER POLITICS: Weird War

Last week a diplomatic drama as
strange as a Wagnerian opera unrolled in the Bavarian Alps. The setting
was WagnerianFührer Adolf Hitler's Berghof at Berchtesgaden, a
mountain hideaway 15 miles from music-haunted Salzburg, 600 miles from
Danzig, 1,300 miles from Moscow, and 3,000 feet above sea level. Facing
the cloud-capped mountains the brown and white Berghof itselfhuge
echoing rooms, wide halls, bedrooms for 40 guests, guards' turrets,
flower gardens, machine-gun nestsseemed as unreal as the home of the
Troll kings.

At this ethereal haunt there arrived one day last week Count Galeazzo...